-Live Mint The deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, in an interview, spoke about the challenges of pushing public Health reforms India is likely to finalize a draft Plan document next week to introduce universal Health coverage in India. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, spoke in an interview about the challenges of pushing public Health reforms with limited resources at hand. Edited excerpts: * Will the government be able to...
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Harda's jal satyagraha: Prohibitory orders imposed, protesters may be arrested-Siddharth Ranjan Das and Abhinav Bhatt
-NDTV Harda, Madhya Pradesh: A day after the victory of those sitting on a jal satyagraha in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district, the focus today shifted to Harda where a similar protest is going on for the last 13 days. More than 30 villagers are sitting here in neck-deep water demanding the water level in the Indira Sagar Dam be brought down to 260 metres from 262 metres, and rehabilitation of affected...
More »Women and Girls at Heart of the Blue Revolution-Lakshmi Puri
-IPS News World Water Week recently concluded in Stockholm with a special emphasis on the linkages between water and food security. From the worst drought in 56 years in the United States Midwest, to the Karnataka’s drought in India, to the protracted drought in the Sahel region of West Africa, we have also seen how in our globalised world the nexus between lack of water and food security in one corner of...
More »Lancet backs WHO on need for universal Health cover -Vidya Krishnan
-The Wall Street Journal/ Live Mint More than 60 million pushed below poverty line in India by Healthcare costs in 2011 More than 60 million people were pushed below the poverty line in India by Healthcare costs in 2011, said the Lancet medical journal, making a case for universal Health coverage (UHC) in its latest issue. This comes amid international debate on the role of insurance, affordable medicines and access to Healthcare. The...
More »National scheme for free medicines for all sought
-The Hindu The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan on Monday called upon the Union Government to extend free medicine supply scheme, presently operational in a few States like Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, all over the country to reduce out-of-pocket expenditure of common people on Health care. Such a scheme would especially benefit the patients deprived of any kind of treatment due to poverty. In a letter addressed to Union Health & Family Welfare Secretary...
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